Rossiya med B744 problemer samme dag - Curt Lewis

Incident: Rossiya B744 at Barcelona on Aug 14th 2018, nose wheel steering failure A Rossiya Boeing 747-400, registration EI-XLF performing flight FV-5731 from Moscow Vnukovo (Russia) to Barcelona,SP (Spain) with about 500 people on board, landed on Barcelona's runway 25R and rolled out safely, but was subsequently unable to vacate the runway due to a nose wheel steering fault. The aircraft stopped on the runway. A first tow tug was unable to move the aircraft, a second tow truck was dispatched and was able to tow the aircraft to the apron. The runway returned to service almost 2 hours after landing. The airport in the meantime was forced to operate on crossing runway 02 and 25L causing delays. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Barcelona about 16.5 hours after landing.

Incident: Rossiya B744 enroute on Aug 14th 2018, engine shut down in flight A Rossiya Boeing 747-400, registration EI-XLE performing flight FV-5712 from Larnaca (Cyprus) to Moscow Vnukovo (Russia) with about 500 people on board, was enroute at FL340 when the crew detected an anomaly with one of the engines (CF6) and proceeded to shut the engine down. The aircraft descended to FL330 and continued to Moscow for a safe landing. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground 11 hours after landing.